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Originally Posted by J-Mech
Neither is rebuilding a cylinder.
Hey, listen I don't want to beat this to death... but when I was a kid I had a 3 wheeler that got so wore out it wouldn't hardly start. I took the head off and found a burnt valve. I wasn't going to spend the money on new valves, or a valve job... so, I chucked the valves up in a drill press and used a hand file to "true them up". Did it work... oh yeah. Put them back in and it would actually start. Rode it several more years like that. Point is, just because you can do something, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
No, a machine shop cannot make that piece. The surface is machine flat and lapped, then case hardened so the bearing can ride on it. It's a buy thing.
Check around.
Your choices are new, used or find a different source for the new part. Or put it back together and see how long it lasts. Looks pretty rough from here, but the pic you took isn't great..... I can't see how bad it is very well.
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About that cylinder...
Let it be...
About the steering unit, the surface is pretty rough and pitted where the backup ring sits. I'm not going to bother putting that back together, it won't last and I'm not wasting a seal kit on it. I have two of these to rebuild. My plan was to rebuild both and sell one. It's not worth it to me to spend a lot of money to repair this one since it is the extra one. The other one is on my tractor currently, I'm hoping when I get inside it that one it's not chewed up like this also, because that's the one I'm using. It's not leaking bad, but a drip here and there, and it drips on my deck and it's annoying because the dirt sticks to the residue. This one I'm working on now was like a hydro fluid geyser in the tractor it came from.